Fernando Chirigati

About Me

Currently, I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Juliana Freire. I came to the beautiful - and very busy - city of New York in January 2012 to pursue a Ph.D. degree. Before, I worked as a Research Assistant at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), under the supervision of Prof. Marta Mattoso. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from NYU, and a B.E. in Computer and Information Engineering from UFRJ. To check out my full CV, click here.

I come from the gorgeous city of Petrópolis, in Brazil, where almost all my family and friends still reside. I had the opportunity to study in Rio de Janeiro, the “Marvelous City”, where I not only made a lot of good friends, but also started working with research in the database area.

Research

My research interests are mainly in the area of scientific data management, including provenance management and analytics, large-scale data analytics, data mining, reproducibility, and data visualization.

Awards and Honors

SIGMOD 2017 Most Reproducible Paper Award: our paper Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets was selected one of the most reproducible papers across several criteria of the SIGMOD 2016 papers.

Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award: Outstanding performance on the Ph.D. qualifying examination, given by NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in 2014.

A3P Special Honor: Outstanding performance achieved at the Polytechnic School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, given by the Alumni Association of the Polytechnic School (A3P) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in 2013.

Magna Cum Laude Honor: Outstanding performance achieved in Computer and Information Engineering, given by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in 2013.